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You'll pry my books off my cold, dead body. By the time you shift them all I'll be flat and dessicated.
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Winter's Tales
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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The Rings of Saturn
Lady Audley's Secret
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back
The City, Not Long After
You Can Sketch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners
Lonely Werewolf Girl
Witchcraft and the Community in France and French-speaking EuropeBriggs approaches this subject via social history and cultural anthropology, challenging the traditional historiography that defines belief in witches in terms of ignorance and superstition and focusing instead on a nexus of beliefs and practices rooted in local society. Like Keith Thomas, Briggs argues that persecution of witches was powered by local tensions, with political and religious authorities authorizing but not motivating.